LUKE LAIRD

 

Spending all day, working on a song––that’s Luke Laird.  Quiet but full of music, hard-working but playful, quick-witted but kind: he has long-since joined the country music ranks he idolized as a kid growing up in tiny Hartstown, Pennsylvania.  The numbers are staggering: 52 radio singles –– 24 of which were Billboard No. 1 hits and 5 of which were in the Top 5 –– 2 Billboard No. 1 singles as a producer, and more than 125 released cuts fill his catalog.  In four separate years, every single released that Laird wrote peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.  Laird has earned 2 Grammys, clinched Songwriter of the Year titles from BMI and the Academy of Country Music, and taken home too much more industry hardware to gracefully list here.  But while music’s top-tier and liner-notes lovers know his name, Laird has typically shirked spotlights––until now.  With his album Music Row, Laird offers an intimate look into his journey from Hartstown to Nashville.  The first-ever record from one of music’s most trusted creators and collaborators, Music Row is a songwriter’s story, traversing childhood, grief, addiction, family, and the community he loves.  The songs are deeply personal and sometimes raw, all delivered by the songwriter himself.